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Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Audi has unveiled an evolution version of its R8 LMS GT3 racer. The upgrades on the second-generation R8 first raced in 2015, which were announced on Tuesday at the Paris Motor Show, are focused on aerodynamics and cooling, as well as lengthening service

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The race-winning Black Falcon Mercedes has been disqualified from the Barcelona Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup finale. The #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 in which Maro Engel, Luca Stolz and Yelmer Buurman claimed the BGTS Endurance Cup title has been exclude from the results for

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Black Falcon Mercedes drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz claimed the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title with a narrow victory in the Barcelona finale. Buurman crossed the line less than two seconds up on the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG GT3

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The Stephane Ratel Organisation will link its three continental sprint series into an 18-round global championship in 2019 under the Blancpain GT World Challenge banner. The series will be made up of the rounds of what are currently called the Blancpain GT Series

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche has revived the type number and styling of its 935 silhouette racer of the 1970s with a new 911-based car aimed at club racing and track days. The born-again Porsche 935 mimics the look of the final factory iteration of the Group

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin’s new Vantage GT3 will make its official race debut in the VLN Endurance Series at the Nurburgring Nordschleife next weekend. The V8-powered car, which is derived from the manufacturer’s World Endurance Championship GTE model, replaces the V12 Vantage that has been

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick is ready to begin his comeback from the injuries sustained in the Spa 24 Hours in July that hospitalised him for five days. Meyrick, who raced for the M-Sport Bentley squad in 2013-15, has recovered from a

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Super GT frontrunner and Nissan driver Jann Mardenborough will make his first Blancpain GT Series start in nearly three years at next weekend’s Endurance title decider at Barcelona. Mardenborough has been drafted in as a replacement for the injured Lucas Ordonez by RJN

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Spa 24 Hours winners Tom Blomqvist and Philipp Eng will join the factory BMW Rowe squad in a bid for the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title at the Barcelona finale. The two BMW works drivers will each race one of the pair

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button admits his switch from Formula 1 to the Japanese Super GT series has been tougher than he expected, following his maiden win in the championship last weekend. The 2009 F1 world champion claimed victory and the points lead alongside team-mate Naoki

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Former Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows snatched the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup championship victory with a win in the second Nurburgring race. The victorious #88 ASP Mercedes started the race in second and spent much of the afternoon behind the

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver and 2009 world champion Jenson Button earned a maiden Super GT victory at Sugo to take the lead of the championship, alongside co-driver Naoki Yamamoto. Yamamoto started the race from pole position in the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT, and immediately

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas have been awarded the win of the opening Nurburgring Blancpain GT Sprint Cup race after a 30-second post-race penalty was applied to the original victor. The post-race call is enough to lift the Audi pairing of Mies and

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lamborghini drivers Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart have taken their third Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup victory of 2018 in the opening Nurburgring race of the weekend. The #63 Huracan GT3 of started on pole and make a clean getaway to remain in

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Former Formula 1 driver Jenson Button claimed his first pole position in Super GT after team-mate Naoki Yamamoto set the fastest lap in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sugo. It was the sister ARTA-run Honda of Tomoki Nojiri and Takuya Izawa that led the

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin is relaunching its Young Driver Academy scheme in a bid to find a new factory driver. It has revived the programme from which Ross Gunn graduated with a factory contract ahead of the 2016 season. The previous scheme, known as the

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. ASP Mercedes’ Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows took a commanding victory in a rain-affected Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup race at the Hungaroring. The duo converted pole position into Mercedes’ first sprint win of 2018 to draw level on points with the #1

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lamborghini duo Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti dominated the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup opener at the Hungaroring, beating pre-race favourite Mercedes. Engelhart launched his Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 into the lead just seconds into the race despite starting fifth on the

Aston Martin will remain committed to GT racing even if it enters either the new hypercar concept class in the World Endurance Championship or the DTM. David King, president of Aston Martin Racing, is insistent that the British marque will “always race GT cars” at a time when it has admitted interest in the LMP1

Mercedes dominated the first running of the Suzuka 10 Hours, with the GruppeM squad leading a one-two finish for the German manufacturer. The #888 trio of Raffaele Marciello, Maro Engel and Tristan Vautier moved into the lead at the start of the second hour and were unchallenged for victory thereafter, ending Audi’s unbeaten streak in

Taiwanese squad HubAuto Corse claimed pole position for the Intercontinental GT Challenge’s inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours with its Pro-Am Ferrari in a truncated qualifying session on Saturday. The #28 488 GT3 of Nick Foster, David Perel and Hiroki Yoshida topped the group stage of qualifying, ending up nearly two seconds clear of its nearest challenger

The new McLaren 720S GT3 has begun an extensive testing programme ahead of its full race debut in 2019. The first GT3 machine to be developed in-house at McLaren Automotive’s new GT facility in Woking, taking over from Andrew Kirkaldy’s CRS organisation that operated under the McLaren GT banner, is based on the marque’s 720S

[ad_1] Raffaele Marciello will contest this month’s Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round with the GruppeM Mercedes squad. The 2013 Formula 3 Euro Series title winner, who is racing for GruppeM in the Blancpain GT Series Asia this year, will drive the team’s solo entry together with fellow factory Mercedes driver Maro Engel and Tristan Vautier

Raffaele Marciello will contest this month’s Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round with the GruppeM Mercedes squad. The 2013 Formula 3 Euro Series title winner, who is racing for GruppeM in the Blancpain GT Series Asia this year, will drive the team’s solo entry together with fellow factory Mercedes driver Maro Engel and Tristan Vautier in

[ad_1] Audi will field a trio of factory entries in the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The Belgian WRT team will enter two Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars in the new Suzuka 10 Hours race on August 26 as expected, while Absolute Racing has been added to the factory roster

Audi will field a trio of factory entries in the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The Belgian WRT team will enter two Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars in the new Suzuka 10 Hours race on August 26 as expected, while Absolute Racing has been added to the factory roster with

[ad_1] There could be as many as five or six new GT2 supercars ready to race by the second half of next year, according to class instigator Stephane Ratel. Ratel, who announced plans for the new class that is aimed at amateur drivers last week, revealed that there was already significant interest from manufacturers. “If

There could be as many as five or six new GT2 supercars ready to race by the second half of next year, according to class instigator Stephane Ratel. Ratel, who announced plans for the new class that is aimed at amateur drivers last week, revealed that there was already significant interest from manufacturers. “If we’re

[ad_1] Williams Formula 1 young driver Oliver Rowland will return to the factory-backed Strakka Mercedes team for the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The 25-year-old will drive one of two pro class Mercedes-AMG GT3s entered by the German manufacturer’s full-time representative in the Suzuka 10 Hours on August 26 after

Williams Formula 1 young driver Oliver Rowland will return to the factory-backed Strakka Mercedes team for the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The 25-year-old will drive one of two pro class Mercedes-AMG GT3s entered by the German manufacturer’s full-time representative in the Suzuka 10 Hours on August 26 after making